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A direct multi-generational estimate of the human mutation rate from autozygous segments seen in thousands of parentally related individuals
Vagheesh M Narasimhan, Raheleh Rahbari, Aylwyn Scally…·Richard Durbin
The paper estimates the human mutation rate using autozygous segments from 3,222 British-Pakistani individuals, finding a lower mutation rate than previous estimates and population-specific mutational patterns.
DOI 10.1101/059436